Literary critic Terry Castle says most people know Patricia Highsmith's writing through screen adaptations, but her original stories are even more chilling and compelling. "The main characters do ...

Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions. Credit...Photo: Swiss Literary ...

Documentary filmmaker Eva Vitija remembers being struck by the idea of Patricia Highsmith when Vitija’s parents described the famous writer who lived alone with her cats in Tegna, the Swiss town ...

As we near the 25th anniversary of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's most infamous creation, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Netflix has released a striking new ...

The best moments in Patricia Highsmith’s novels are the ones in which we see quick flashes of her protagonists’ interiority, before they reset the masks they’re inevitably presenting to the ...

Patricia Highsmith was an American author who specialized in psychological thrillers and dark character studies. She ...

“Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live,” Patricia Highsmith wrote in a diary entry from 1950. Were she Jane Austen or a Brontë sister, this might be a romantic statemen ...

Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament!” This famous line in Patricia Highsmith’s 1950 novel Strangers on a Train goes a long way to explaining the author’s enduring appeal.

In 1955, Patricia Highsmith unleashed the character Tom Ripley on the world. In her book "The Talented Mr. Ripley," Highsmith introduced us to an unprepossessing young man, an unreliable narrator ...

The 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film based on the 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley and Carol, is about (you guessed it) two strangers, Bruno and Guy, who meet on ...

Andrew Scott plays Tom Ripley in the new Netflix series, Ripley, drawn from Patricia Highsmith's novel. For a total psychopath, Tom Ripley is remarkably popular. As we near the 25th anniversary of ...